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Science & Islam: A History
Author(s): Ehsan Masood
Publisher: Icon Books
Date: 2006
Pages: 333 in ePub format
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848310811
ISBN-13: 978-1848310810
Size: 2.05 MB

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History's least-known yet most fertile period in science was the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1400. The story of the scientists and inventors is woven into a journey through the Islamic empires of the middle ages that enabled this revolution, and its contribution to science in Western culture.

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"The fruits of the golden age of Islamic science are summarised briskly and engagingly in Ehsan Masood's Science & Islam, which was written to accompany a recent BBC television series... Keen to dismantle the myth that Islam is fundamentally opposed to science, and [shows] that the words of Muhammad can be read as obliging rational inquiry."
--Sunday Times

"Why did science and learning decline so rapidly [in the Islamic World]? Ehsan Masood gives a viable answer to this question. Masood's eminently readable survey of science in Islam fills many gaps in [Jonathan Lyons'> The House of Wisdom by providing the social and political context in which discoveries took place."
--The Times

"A delightful and approachable work, packed with surprises and treats, and offered by a writer whose passion for the subject does not daunt his objectivity"
--Wharf

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About the Author:

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Ehsan Masood is Acting Chief Commissioning Editor at Nature and teaches international science policy at Imperial College London. He also writes for Prospect and OpenDemocracy .Net and is a regular panelist on BBC radio 4's Home Planet.

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